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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkVibrant:
Am I totally bricked? Different symptoms...

Hey guys, I think I have a similar problem. Can you tell me if I am absolutely screwed here? (I'm trying to avoid heating my phone, as I can't see how that can be a legitimate method of getting into Recovery / Download mode.)

I've got the Bell Vibrant and went through the process of getting it onto the Rogers network. So I am not with Bell. Bell won't send it back because I'm not a customer. Samsung washes their hands of all "end user" stuff saying that the Carrier services, and Best Buy says that we unlocked the phone so the warranty is void.

Here's what the phone is doing:

The battery on the phone died completely. I recharged the phone to a full charge (The green battery meter works fine) but when I go to turn the phone on, it gets as far as the swirling S logo but then goes black - sometimes the to soft keys stay lit white. The phone is unresponsive at this point... Only battery pull seems to get it back to at least showing the battery symbol when plugged in.

The problem is: Kies won't recognise the phone. It detects it for a moment but disconnects with a dialog saying: "Reconnect the device on Samsung Kies(PC Studio) mode. Kies does not support this connect mode."

Because it's a Bell Vibrant, I have not been able to find ANY combination of a three finger salute that will work, and have tried many variants of holding various combinations of buttons. Nothing works because apparently the Bell Vibrant has a bunged up secondary boot loader (which there is a fix for I believe - but I need to get into Recover/Download mode).

adb does not seem to want to connect either. I guess because Kies won't connect.

Any ideas of how I can at least get the phone into recover or download?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you mean this screen we have in the Wiki?

wiki link http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S_Series

you can flash again using Odin and get it back to normal

just go into download mode

steps on wiki
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MadBob:
I had that screen after very first flash I did :D gave me a scare, but pulled battery and did download button hold whilst replacing battery, then re flashed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i'll suggest trying out another sim card in the phone first

also try the bell sim card on another unlocked phone to see if it picks it up

if it's just a dead sim card bell will replace it for you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarkVibrant:
Wait... how did you do a factory reset if you couldn't get the phone to boot and it was stuck as you say? Mine is still screwed. Are you able to get yours into recovery?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torob:
I wrnt into recovery mode using vol up + power + home
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demetan71:
I don't know why!!!

THANK YOU MadBob AND AllGamer

I haved try several time yesterday, and I can't go into recovery or download mode!!! I haved tried again, and now it's work!!!

:D yeah it's not Bricked!!

The main problem is that I doesn't put the update.zip when I was able to boot the phone.

Now, when I reboot I have the samsung screen show me for a few of second I9000M, after switch to I9000, I ear music, but nothing after!!!

I downloaded files I9000XXJPC_KERNEL_ROOT.zip but I didn't put the update.zip to the phone.

Is there a way to upload update.zip to the phone with Odin?? Did I have the good files??

Don't be to rough I'm a french canadian user.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dumpweed425:
Try this guy!

Just got mine back today so i can tell you he is trust worthy and is very fast and always reply's to emails:

gsmunlockservices@yahoo.com $80
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demetan71:
Yeah!!! I've got it!!!!

I put the phone in recovery mode

I downloaded "I9000XXJPC_I9000OXAJPC_CODE-MODEM-CSC_ODIN.7z" from multiupload.com/LVY75LHMNT

I extracted it, Run Odin and add file "CODE_I9000XXJPC.tar.md5"

with PDA button. Click start, and everything is alright now!!!

Thank's
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Your internal SD card is dead. It's just another defective vibrant from bell. Bring it to a bell store and see if they would fix the phone for a fee.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
good for you, glad you are back up and running :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
how did the topic go jumping from bad a flash using AT&T ROM in a wrong phone model to sim unlock the phone when it's not even booting properly?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appyet123:
I had unlock phone with Petro-Canada now, not sure if I could go to Dell store and ask for repair, even with fee, their service has been pretty bad. none the less, I will give it a try.

also, I found this video http://www.androidphonegeek.com/2010/06/samsung-galaxy-s-tear-down

looks like it is pretty easy to change a mother board. do you know changing the mother board will fix it? if so, I am thinking to do it myself, will start looking for a broken (eg screen) GS from someone.

I own GS for 3 weeks, before it broken, it was first smart phone I truly like. I used HTC FUZE before it, and have been flash it like crazy with different ROM, never had problem with it. some what disappointment about this.

thanks again
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
select wipe data and wipe cache then reboot
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demetan71:
Now I'm trying to root it!

Now I'm trying to root it, but It seem not work with Foryo!

I tried "One Click Lag Fix for Galaxy S i9000" and it Doesn't work!!

Thank's again guy's

P.S. I want to root it to use AdFree who need root!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
Any news on this procedure

I am one of the lucky guys which has this problem

I tried the trick above but it did not work

Always I go to the black screen of death

Is there any rom with a kernel which will provide format and to undo the voodoo

or at least to bring the phone in a mode where Kies can recover it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jassyboy:
ok my story is the same as above.

1. i tried to upgrade to one of the rom's

2. did it all and when the phone starts, it shows the time in faded brightness and then i cant swipe nothing. i cant even get it into recovery.

3. uninstalled kies, now will reboot my pc. wish me luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xLostx:
[Q] Flashed CSC to PDA --> Bricked

Hi,

I accidently selected CSC where i should used PDA.

Resulting in i turned off my phone started it up in Download Mode again.

Tried to flash it to JPK again. And again and again.

but it took forever to flash SBL, turned off my phone.

And now i cant even get in to the download mode.

Its dead.

any ideas ?

is it hope for the warranty and samsung reflash it ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nprussell:
[HELP] Brick?

Hi all,

First of all, I'm actually a developer. I know what I'm doing with HTC phones, and Android in general.

An oversees friend of mine has recently bought an i9000. Via ODIN, he flashed the 2.2 Froyo upgrade, but it seems to have failed.

He is unable to use the 3BR (3 button combos) - either of them, and simply gets the exclamation screen. Unfortunately, Odin cannot see the phone, and I can't think of a way around this.

he cannot get into download/recovery mode, and his computer will not see his phone.

I refuse to accept that it's bricked, but I have very little experience with Samsung phones. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

thank you in advance,

Nathan
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
there is the heat sensor trick

if that doesn't work, then the phone will need to be sent back to Samsung for repair

that person should have not flashed 2.2 without first making sure the 3 button worked
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nprussell:
Yeah, I'm aware of that now... I had nothing to do with the process until now :(

What's the heat sensor trick?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
take off the back cover, remove battery, remove SIM + SD card

blast the phone hot with a hair dryer

it needs to be HOT not warm, but not melting hot either, but hot enough to hurt

then it shoud unlock the 3 buttons
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j0rd:
I have the exact same issue on a Galaxy S with OCLF applied (most recent market version).

With that said, I think I know what caused my issue.

Last night I was playing around on the phone with low battery. It was not letting me do much (no music, no camera), but still let me use Wifi and surf...so that's what I was doing.

Until I completly drained the battery and the thing turned itself off (aka. just went black).

I decided to go to bed.

Been charging it today and trying to turn it on, and the problem I get is the same as described in this thread. I have yet to try and resolve the issue, but I will let you know.

I assume this is simply a software issue and I need to reset my software. I'm currently in Singapore and would let to get it fixed tomorrow by someone who can do this for me. I'm not interested in trying to do it under warrenty, if I can simply pay someone a little bit of cash to get it resolved quickly with out hassles.

Let me know.

Jordan
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
Nope, already had it, were able to fix it trough odin without too much cursing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob15:
i9000M bricked????

hey guys recently my phone been turning off after which i must remove the battery and power back on....

but this morning i woke up and now my i9000m won't power on anymore even after i remove the battery.(nothing won't even turn on)

my phone was rooted, and had voodoo lagfix on, as well i was using launcher pro.....

i think download mode is were the android has the trianlge and shovel.... does anyone know what i can do????
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j0rd:
I'm not able to get any of the modes working on my phone.

No recovery mode.

No debug mode.

No download mode.

No safe mode.

I assume I need one of these modes for Odin. If I can't get into any of these modes, what are my options?

I've all the methods and I get nothing. I believe I have an international phone. I bought it in Thailand.

PS. If my phone won't boot, how can the operators tell it's rooted and not fix it? Are there going to get to the stage where they could flash my phone and then be like "Oh, it was rooted before. He's on his own!". because that seems really ****ty.

Also as a power user I kind of consider the no-3-button recovery mode a defect, does samsung see this as such? I would ideally love to return my phones and get one with 3 button recovery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald Nice:
if nothing works you can do a factory reset in the recovery mode, but this will delete all you personal data.

Thx 2 Aery for graphics and description!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
Take it back to where you've got it, they could send it in with a faulty hardware description or they could simply flash it for you on the spot.

So, holding volume bttn UP/DOWN + Home + Powerbutton isn't working for you?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
they released a fix for the 3 button disabled issue

go to the dev area and flash the 3 button fix

but the phone must be working before hand
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob15:
dorry if i didn't make this clear but i CAN't TURN ON MY PHONE this includes recovery menu altough i think i cna go to download menu no idea why.....

oh i got i9000m with recoverey buttons disabled but i applied the fix and was working for a while...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
do you have an external battery charger?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
[Q] Bricked SGS! HELP Please

Hi All

Last night I tried to update a friend's SGS but it didn't have the 3 buttons combos enabled! So i downloaded the 3 button fix and tried to apply it with ODIN just like is explained in the fix thread! Needles to say Odin just stood and didn't do anything! After a good wait I disconnected the phone and it didn't start anymore! Only a small graphic is displayed with a phone an orange sign and a PC. The computer will NOT recognize that anything is connected at all!

Please HELP me! I did flash mine so many times and everything was fine!

The phone is a standard SGS unbranded
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chamunks:
[Q] Well I think I've pretty much bricked it. Stuck in 3 second boot loop.

Well, heres the breakdown.

I flashed a bunch of roms trying to get one that worked well with my Bell Samsung Galaxy S vibrant (which is actualy a i9000m) last night it was able to go into usb transfer mode so.

My phone was working last night before I went to bed so I had it plugged into my computer backing up the internal / external sd cards. Since this takes a very long time I decided to sleep on it.

This morning I tried to watch some videos I had on my device and it gave me a whole Pile of application errors and wouldn't do anything. So after trying to just do a simple power cycle the phone will not go to the animated boot screen.

It wont even sit at the powered down battery status screen. I don't understand how this could have gotten this bad but if anyone has any ideas now would be a phenomenal time to help out I really rely on my phone. I managed to think that it was a good idea to sign a contract with sMell just to get this droid... I really hate bell lol.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miragebg:
Unfortunately there is no luck for you... It has to be sent for repair.

(няма начин след като не ти работи три-бутонната комбинация да го съживиш..беше отбелязано в няколко теми тук.)

Sorry for the different language I used, but we are living in same country.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstar1:
what is the combo fix??

was this button combo flash thing for to enable download mode or just recovery?

If download mode combo doesnt work, your screwed my friend :D (no offense)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Sounds like your internal SD card just died like so many other Bell I9000M's.

Try a factory reset from recovery, if that doesn't work, your only 2 options are DOA with the seller if you're within that timeframe, or send it away for repairs.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob15:
figures that that battery had no charge which is kinda bs since i left it charging all night long.... just unplugged it and tried turning it on and nothing-.- well its working now and thanks for that pic XD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
The fix is for all 3 button combos! Download and recovery. I followed the guide precisely but when Odin began flashing the fix it just stood at the beginning and nothing happen! The odd (and really miserable for me) part is that the service center exchanged the phone today with a new one but is had the 3 button combos disabled too! I said OK I'll not touch the boot loader anymore and using ADB I restarted the phone in download mode. Then tried to update the ROM with JM8 and and using both different PC, different OS, Different Odin version and different Cable the flash failed again and guess what! Bricked this one too :(

I did So many flashes on mine and it worked every time thees tho phones really hate me!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danzgrace:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=801148

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7193770&postcount=8
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chamunks:
I knew I should have bought a nexxus 1

I really hate bell. I bought this phone like 2 months ago I doubt I could doa it now and I doubt they'll do much but maybe I can just threaten to cancel kus i really would rather go back to fido anyways and get my billing to the second and unltd incoming back.

Well I hope that they opt for the repair over the me canceling part kus thats a bleeding hassle.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
My recommendation would be to stop flashing with Odin and use Heimdall as the current release is stable. You can't repartition at the moment but I'll be making another release in a day or two that includes that functionality.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
no, it is actually normal to not charge, when the OS is dead.

if the OS is dead, the phone will not charge the battery, we've seen that a lot on other topics

that's why sometimes when you flash via Kies, it will not let you flash unless you have a full battery

it's a weird feature of this phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noob15:
hmm weird casue i was using the phone b4 i was sleeping cause i jsut put it on the charger since it was dead but it turned on then and i left it to charge hmm no idea...

and thanks for the ead up on that feature of the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dali13gr:
To brief you up on the case, everything went well. The device was software updated by Samsung and returned to me working perfectly well. Thank you all for your help!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Even if it does work, you might decrease the lifespan of other components. People with XBOX360's used heat to fix them sometimes, as it was believed to remelt the joints inside, but they only did so out of warranty.

Just return it for warranty/DOA
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ybncqr:
Hi Sunny24, i need desperate help, I am in the exact same boat as you are. The 3 button function is disabled, when I turn it on, the logo and animation comes up, and then the screen just blanks out for the rest of the time.

How did you get your computer to detect the device through the Android SDK? I tried doing those commands through cmd but unfortunately the device wont detect. How did your computer detect the samsung galaxy s without it being on or even mounted for that matter?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Surge_ru:
!!!!!! Download mode WORKS

I nearly had a heart attack

I managed to get the download mode working by taking out the battery, then pressed simultaneously the power-volume down-home buttons and in that state inserted the battery. And it went to download mode! )) hope this helps anyone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JontheHorrible:
or me, and i tried the hairdryer. Vodafone are oout of stock who knows when ill get a replacement, with my blackberry took 6 weeks :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i held it for over 7 loops and it never went into the download screen.

back then some HTC magic android phones had exactly the same problem

some were able to get into the 3 colour flash mode, yet many could not

because some batch the factory forgot to set some stuff in the image that they use to load the phones
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dipac:
I'd suggest boot back into download mode and re-flash with a new firmware
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkstriker:
I would suggest flashing a rom with clockwork recovery and try the mount sdcard function. for example this one
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jordiharrison:
Bricked Bell i9000M

Well I managed to do it. I bricked my freakin phone :o

I ran the script that removes the v1 one-click lag fix, and it got force closed,Then froze up. Restarted it, and on boot it goes to black and stays there. Unfortunately I have a Bell i9000m so it's locked out of recovery and download mode. No sequence of any kind will bring this thing back, and of course adb won't detect it.

I guess I will head over to the kiosk where I got it and see if I can get a on the spot swap or what have you. I really hope my sister's friend is working :p

SON OF A BEEHIVE!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
so the 3 button combo doesn't work at all?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jordiharrison:
Nope not all. Just DOAed my old one and got a new one. Im sitting in the mall parking lot and just tried to do recovery and download modes and they worked! Really weird, my old one had a "/" in the IMEI but this one doesnt.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostshock:
They're starting to ship phones with working recovery modes? I'll have to drop in on Bell next week and ask to give one a shot and request a swap.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jordiharrison:
Just brick it and say "It was frozen when I woke up, so I restarted it but it boots to black." hehehehe
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0logramma:
Uninstall Lagfix 2.0 reboot... Galaxy i9000 Bricked !

power + vol down + menu - download mode

does not recognize the driver "gadget serial control" with exclamation point

removing the battery restart pc

tried on 2 other pc windows xp and Kies 7 with the last and also previous

download mode does not see the driver that has worked!

after lagfix uninstall 2.0 reboot for new firmware Galaxy i9000 Bricked !

Help me Help me pleaseee!!!

:confused::(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M4r1k:
Very strange because I've removed my One Click Lag Fix v2.3 and I don't brick my device.

About 2 hours ago I installed JM5, before I had JM2 with One Click Lag Fix 1. Now with version 2.3 my pc see SGS on download mode.

Try to change usb cable and for download mode: vol down + HOME + power ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skitpt:
Why remove it at all? And not just reflash the firmware? Is anything different that way?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M4r1k:
try this and good luck ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7193770&postcount=8
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Just reflash the phone with Odin + 3 button combo
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0logramma:
tried changing the usb cable

"Device not recognized"

nothing to do

I wanted to remove 2.0 and go to 1.6 with jm5

when I start S.O. unlock the screen "stop program

and I can not do anything! :confused:

only be in recovery! :cool:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0logramma:
tried this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7193770&postcount=8

but nothing!

thanks for all the suggestions .. :(

ps: M4r1k sono di Bologna ma come cavolo è possibile che non vede piu il driver usb!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] applebook:
That's the beauty of dealing with large corporations. They rarely ask too many questions for loyal customers ;)

Congrats on the swap "feat."
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M4r1k:
cavolo proprio non saprei, se oltre ad aver forzato il riconoscimento dei driver senza firma non lo vedi credo che te lo sia davvero bruciato

Aspetta altri pareri, magari trovi qualcuno più esperto di me, cmq al massimo lo mandi in RMA sperando che nn vedano che si è brickato a causa tua.....

edit: ma poco prima del reboot la console ti ha dato degli errori?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0logramma:
I try tomorrow morning with the service center

if there was some command adb push with sdk

somebody can help me?

ps: M4r1k

spero che non ne abbiano che scrivo in ita

allora guarda dalla console la procedura l'ha fatta e tutto ok ci ha messo il suo tempo circa 5 minuti.. volevo togliere il kernel 2.0 x provare la 1.6

il firmware che avevo su era la g5 con l'ottimizzazione modaco R3 e il lagfix 2.0

prima di fare l'aggiornamento ho fatto un wipe cache e ho resettato per la modalita download "triangolo giallo" da li in poi non mi ha piu visto i driver

è il secondo che brikko anche il desire sono stato 1 dei primi a bloccarlo con la prima beta release del root e su modaco son diventato matto! alla fine sostituito da htc

domani mattina chiamo il numero verde e lo porto al primo centro assistenza non si dovrebbe vedere nulla che c'era la custom quando avvio il s.o. se sblocchi lo schermo ti da errore a ripetizione e non ti fa vedere nulla!! speriam!!